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Safety is an important and often overlooked topic. Make safety a part of your everyday life and let others know how much you care by making their lives safer too. Let the next generation of tractor enthusiasts benefit from your experience, and maybe save a life or appendages.

a man got killed at the steel mill where i work yesterday, forklift operator got off machine to move some dunnage where he wanted to set load (about 30,000 lbs.). he turned his back to forklift and it rolled and pinned him between another stack of steel. he had left the engine running, trans in neutral but did not set his brake. how many times have we put a running tractor in neutral and just got off to do something. cubs have a brake lock and i have never used it but that is going to change . cubs are not heavy as far as tractors go but 1800 pounds sitting on your chest will kill you just as quick.

Fodman we are all very sorry to hear about your lost of a co worker, it is very sad when anyone dies of something as simple as setting a break. But we all do things we shouldn't do some times, Thanks for posting this, It may make all of us to thing Twice. may God be with the family, The Chief

Accidents are tough, cause everything is going just great then in a fraction of a second it can change usually resulting in bad stuff. Yes, a person should never leave a vehicle running and leave it, but we've all done it. Wishing the best for his family and in my prayer.

Being involved in EMS and also plant safety and first response I have seen a lot of injuries and some deaths caused by "accidents". And they are indeed accidents. No one meant for anything to go wrong. But in most of those incidents people were doing something they had done before many times and never had a problem. In each case - "something" different happened this time. We do become complacent with our practices sometimes and it surely pays to stay on one's toes all the time when working around any type of equipment.

BigdogIf you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem.